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Article: NT: Missing man fled after molesting young girl
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- February 14, 2007
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AAP General News (Australia)
02-14-2007
NT: Missing man fled after molesting young girl
By Tara Ravens
DARWIN, Feb 14 AAP - A 69-year-old Perth tourist who prompted a missing persons search
in the Northern Territory fled after he was caught molesting a young girl in a hotel pool,
a court heard today.
The man was holidaying with family friends in Darwin earlier this year when he inappropriately
touched the 11-year-old, who pushed him away.
When asked by her father what he had done, the man replied: "I'm a nasty old bastard."
He then took off and was found six days later, on January 11, under bushes in Darwin city.
In Darwin Magistrates Court today, the man pleaded guilty to one ...